Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hoby…

Hold up, how's he carrying her up the hill?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: hold up, carry up · To what, where: her

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 253 «English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hobyahs are beaten, the fool's mother dies, and a lass offers to help him» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hold	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 carrying	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 carrying	advmod
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 carrying	aux
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carrying	nsubj
7	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Hold	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carrying	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 carrying	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hill	det
11	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carrying	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	imperative	you not said here						vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	carry up	present · progressive	he		her = she				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme she=Beneficiary hill=Value

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a sack on his shoulder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sack	det
2	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 shoulder	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shoulder	nmod:poss
5	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sack	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

on a donkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 donkey	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 donkey	det
3	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

in a cart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 cart	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cart	det
3	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

in his arms like a baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 arms	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 arms	nmod:poss
3	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 baby	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 baby	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arms	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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